OLAC NACO FUNNEL PROJECT REPORT
Ann Caldwell
NACO-AV Coordinator
Once again, the OLAC NACO Funnel Project has had a productive year. For the fiscal year, October 1, 2003-September 30, 2004 (the government fiscal year), the fourteen active participants added 1,857 new names, 13 new series, changed 237 existing names and added 3 new subjects. The statistics are available online at: <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/stats/total04.pdf>. Although that represents a decrease from the previous year, the fact is that some libraries were experiencing system migrations and other internal changes. This prevented them from devoting as much time as they were accustomed to for NACO and other activities. It can be hoped that the coming year will see an increase in numbers.
You may wonder why the series contributions are relatively low. In order to be a series contributor, you must qualify in two areas. First, you must be an independent NACO contributor. This means that once you have had NACO training and have been contributing headings for a while, your reviewer (in the case of the OLAC Funnel, probably me) has determined that your headings are of a high enough quality that you no longer need to be revised. Second, you need to take separate series training offered by the Library of Congress. This is a week-long session that covers all aspects of series headings and numbering; it is an excellent course. Following that training, you are again under revision for series headings. Once you are off revision for series headings, you may add headings for the Funnel Project. I would like to see more of the Project’s independent contributors take this training so that we can get some of these pesky AV series under control.
Although there was not a NACO training session at the OLAC Conference in Montréal, I hope to be able to schedule training before the next OLAC Biennial Conference. In addition, as I have mentioned before, if there are any regional groups that are interested in participating in the Funnel Project, please contact me. The Project has its own page on the OLAC Website. If you would like additional information about the Project, please contact me (<E_Caldwell@brown.edu> or 410-863-3716) or look at the Web page at <http://www.olacinc.org/naco-av/>.
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Last updated: March 29, 2005
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